Recent graduate Emma Mulholland is currently receiving leadership-spill-worthy levels of attention from devotees of Australian fashion. Much like said attempted political coup, there's something a little bit sinister in her designs, but they tend to come in much more wearable manifestations: scary shark prints in pop-bright hues.
The Sydney-based lady is now taking a wildly different direction to her first collection,
Queen Aurelia, which first sparked media hype when it debuted at RAFW's TAFE Innovators show last year. Compared with her first bright sparkle party, the autumn/winter 2012 capsule,
Tropical Rebel, is moodier, darker, and definitely more street; probably reflecting Emma's recent appointment to the atelier studio at local fashion dominators, Ksubi.
Despite this, the capsule is still surf-cool, and we bet Yeezy will want a piece of it. (Homeboy bought
one of Mulholland's backpacks at Alice Euphemia earlier this year to use "as a reference".) Just in case that doesn't do it for you, however, how about this:
Tropical Rebel was inspired by not only Courtney Love and Poison Ivy, but also by the epic Neve Campbell '90s film,
The Craft.
More at
emmamulholland.com.